Dr. TamimYounos, Water Scientist,is Founder & President of the Green Water-Infrastructure Academy, a nonprofit organization. The mission of GWIA is “Enhance human health and quality of life in global urban environments by promoting green water-infrastructure research, education and outreach programs.” Dr. Younos earned doctoral degree in urban and environmental engineering from the University of Tokyo. His research and educational interests include water sustainability in urban environments; water and energy nexus; climate change and water resources; watershed assessment and monitoring; and holistic approach to sustainable management of water resources. Dr. Younos is a former Research Professor of Water Resources at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. Dr. Younos has authored/co-authored more than 160 publications and has edited nine books on water science & management: “Resilient Water Management Strategies in Urban Settings“ (Springer 2022); Socio-Hydrology: The New Paradigm in Resilient Water Management” (MDPI 2021); “Karst Water Environment: Advances in Research, Management and Policy” (Springer 2018), “Sustainable Water Management in Urban Environments” (Springer 2016), “Advances in Watershed Science and Assessment” (Springer 2015) “Potable Water: Emerging Global Problems and Solutions (Springer 2014), “Climate Change and Water Resources” (Springer, 2013); “Total Maximum Daily Load: Approaches & Challenges” (PennWell Books 2005), “Advances in Water Monitoring Research” (Water Resources Publications 2003). Dr. Younos has led and/or participated in numerous interdisciplinary water research and educational projects and advised students in various disciplines including engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, biology, economics, geography and urban planning.Dr. Younos has organized and spoken at numerous symposia and workshops. His awards and recognition include: American Water Resources Association (AWRA) IckoIben Award (2017), Fulbright Scholar Award (2015); AWRA Fellow Award (2013); Friend of UCOWR, Universities Council on Water Resources (2003); and Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellow (2001).

Title of Talk : Water Management in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities.

Ngo, Huu Hao (Hao) is a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering and serves as the Deputy Director of the Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, and Co-Director of the Joint Research Centre for Environmental Green Bioprocess at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, FEIT, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. He is a well-recognized figure in the field of environmental engineering and has received several prestigious honors including the Chairman of the International Bioprocessing Association, Distinguished Fellow of International Bioprocessing Association, and Fellow of International Water Association. Hao is also the Founder and Executive Coordinator of a newly established society called the “Australasia Practical Zero Emissions Society”.Hao’s expertise and practical experience extend to advanced biological wastewater/waste treatment technologies such as membrane bioreactors, specific attached and/or suspended growth bioreactors, anaerobic digesters, wetlands, and bio-sorption. His expertise spans green and sustainable bioprocessing technologies, biogas/biohydrogen production, greenhouse gas emission control/climate change mitigation, resource recovery, renewable resources, water management, environmental impact assessment, and solid waste management.Hao’s research publications have garnered significant recognition. He is a Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher since 2019 and has authored over 700 publications, including 16 books and 46 book chapters. As of April 2023, his publications have received more than 42,000 citations, with an h-index of 100 on Google Scholar.

Title of Talk : Circular Bioeconomy-based Application of Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors for Sustainable Development

Dr. Dai-Yeun Jeong Current Position Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center, South Korea. Acting Director of Jeju Secretariat, UNESCO World Network of Island and Coastal Biosphere Reserves. Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sociology at Jeju National University, South Korea. Past Major Professional Activities Since 2000 . Member, Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development of the Republic of Korea. Delegate of South Korean Government to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Delegate of South Korean Government to OECD Environmental Meeting. o Research Associate, Environmental Policy Committee for Sustainable Development, The National Assembly of Republic of Korea. Unpublished Research Projects; 95 environment-related projects funded by domestic and international organizations.

Vasudevanpillai Biju is a Professor and the Director of the Promotion Office of International Alliance at the Research Institute for Electronic Science and Graduate School of Environmental Science at Hokkaido University. He assumed this position after a research career as a scientist and a senior scientist at AIST, Japan (2004-2015), a PRESTO researcher at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST, 2010-2014), a visiting Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, USA (2007), a postdoctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA (2003-2004), a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at AIST, Japan (2002-2003), and a research scientist at Angstrom Technology Partnership, Japan (2000-2002). He has been a visiting faculty at many universities in Japan, the US, and India. He has been a member of the board of studies/faculty evaluation/faculty screening/project screening committees of academic and government bodies in Japan, India, New Zealand, Chili, Taiwan, the European Union, Singapore, Belgium, etc. He has been a SPARC fellow at IIT Hyderabad, India, and an Erudite Fellow of the Bard of Higher Education, Kerala, India. His research interests include semiconductor nanocrystals and quantum dots, photo-functional molecules, nanobiotechnogy, and single-molecule techniques. His research activities are recognized with various awards by the Ozaki Foundation (Gen-nai Prize and Gen-nai Award), the Japanese Photochemistry Association, the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association, and the Chemical Society of Japan. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2011. He has beenan associate editor of J. Photochem. Photobiol. C, and NPG Asia Materials.

Title of Talk : Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Energy Harvesting

Dr. Bang-Fuh Chen is an Honorary Chair Professor, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan and Emeritus Professor, Department of Marine Environment and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Bang-Fuh lead an integrated team of muti-discipline professors from several famous universities in Taiwan to accomplished thedeploymentofthefirsttidal energycapturesysteminTaiwan. The max pto of water turbine is nearly 5kW and the supporting anchor and mooring system was successfully resisted the invasion of strong typhoon. Recently, Dr. Chen also developed an innovative ocean wave energy harvesting system in a resonant coastal reservoir and the preliminary study shows the efficiency is much higher than traditional OWC system. In addition, Chen also applies renewable energy on aquaculture. Dr. Chen serves on the editorial board for several journals and is listed on the top 2% scientists named by Stanford University since 2018.

Title of Talk : Recent Development of Marine Renewable Energy Researches at NSYSU and NTOU

Nur Islami received his B.Sc. from Universitas Riau and his M.Eng from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, and Ph.D. degrees from University of Malaya, Malaysia. He worked in Caltex Pacific Indonesia (an Oil Company) in 1997-2000. He joined Universitas Riau, Indonesia as Lecturer from 2000 until now. He was as Visiting Senior Lecturer in University of Malaya (70 QS World Ranking), Malaysia from 2006 to 2015. During this period (2006-2015) he also was an instructor and consultant for the environment and exploration company that was related to the geophysics. He received the Professor since 2020 in the field of Geophysics from Universitas Riau, Indonesia. Now, Prof Nur Islami, Ph.D is the Vice President of Physics Society of Indonesia Riau. He is a reviewer in several Scopus-Indexed Journals and also associate editor of Arabian Journal of Geoscience. His research is correlated with the geophysical method for the environment and earth resources exploration. Prof Nur Islami has many publications in the reputed Scopus-indexed journals.

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I obtained my BSc and MSC degrees from the University of Baghdad in 1968 and 1972 respectively. I got my PhD degree from Dundee University in Water Resources Engineering in 1976. Now I am Professor at the department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering at Lulea Technical University Sweden. Previously, I worked at Baghdad University 1976-1995 then at Al-Bayt University in Jordan (1995- 2007). My research interests are mainly in Geology, Water Resources and Environment. I served several academic administrative posts (Dean, Head of Department). Publications include more than 850 articles in international/national journals, chapters in books and 22 books. I executed more than 60 major research projects in Iraq, Jordan, Sweden, and UK. Awarded several scientific and educational awards, among them is the British Council on its 70th Anniversary awarded him top 5 scientists in Cultural Relations. One patent on Physical methods for the separation of iron oxides. I supervised more than 70 postgraduate students at universities in Iraq, Jordan, UK, Sweden, and Australia. Member of several scientific societies e.g., International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Chartered Institution of Water and Environment Management, IAHR etc. Member of the editorial board of 32 international journals. President of Rafidain NGO for water resources protection and development

Hen Friman holds Ph.D. and Master's degrees from Bar-Ilan University. His master's thesis investigated the effect of Cyt1Aa on prokaryotes, and his Ph.D. research focused on energy production from aromatic chemical degradation of bacteria Using "Bio-Fuel Cells". Since 2012, Dr. Friman is research and lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering. He is currently the academic director at the Renewable Energy & Smart Grid Excellence Center at the HIT - Holon Institute of Technology. Dr. Friman developed an innovative teaching method for a "paperless" laboratory in the field of solar, wind, and water energy. He also managed the "Energy Supervisor" training program at HIT. He was part of the team responsible for developing "Pre-Project and Developing Soft Skills for Engineers" for the undergrad B.Sc. students. The purpose of the course is to define and improve the "toolbox courses" that will provide students with employability skills - Teamwork, effective management of time, risk and quality control, design excellence, and presentation excellence Dr. Friman's research interests include renewable energy, fuel cells, microbial fuel cells, water and wastewater treatment, chemical engineering, ecological education, and academic collaboration.

Dr Moghimi Ardekani, is currently working as an Associate Professor of Clean Energy Technologies at Staffordshire University. Since 2013 he has been actively involved in the design and optimisation of new technologies and devices in the fields of renewable energy (solar thermal technologies in particular), energy storages both thermal and electrical, and multiphase based (including nanofluid) heat sinks. In that regard, he has secured more than £ 2 million research grant in combine and published 72 articles in top peer-reviewed journals and prestigious conference proceedings, one book, two book chapters and a webinar in collaboration with different research institutes and companies around the world. In addition to those academic experiences, he has gained more than 4 years of industrial experiences in designs and simulations of equipment in different plants (Solar thermal, Oil, Gas and Petrochemical plants). He was involved in different industrial projects and conducted various research projects for R&D departments of different international companies. His scientific activities earned him the international Green Talent Award from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) which introduced him as top young scientist in Green Energy in 2015. His research activity rated him as Promising Young Researcher by National Research Foundation. He is a Charted Engineer, and a fellow and or member of various professional institutes and societies, such as Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Higher Education Academy. He is in the editorial board and reviewer of 3 and 19 notable accredited journals, respectively.

Sergio Jofre is a Lecturer at Swansea University, UK and is part of the Circular Economy Innovation Communities programme. He has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Osaka University, and international experience in academia and industry. Sergio’s teaching experience involves undergraduate, graduate, and executive programmes in business and environment, strategic management, innovation, and design. His research works focuses on the multidisciplinary exploration of the human-environment-technology evolutionary interrelationship.
Title of Talk : Trends in Circular Economy and Sociotechnical Systems: Implications for Theory and Practice.

Shubair received a PhD in Environmental Chemical Engineering from Kyushu University, Japan in 2019. His research focuses on preparing novel nanomaterials for wastewater treatment and resources recovery applications. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Engineering at Kyushu University, which enables him to work on practical applications to solve many environmental and industrial challenges in Japan.

Title of the talk: Development of magnetic nanocomposites for treatment of radioactive wastewater

Danielle Perry, PhD is a coastal restoration ecologist with expertise in climate adaptation and salt marsh restoration. Dr. Perry received bachelor’s degrees in Marine Biology and Environmental Science from the University of New Haven and her PhD in Biological and Environmental Sciences from the University of Rhode Island. Her graduate research focused on salt marsh restoration and climate adaptation, which has also been the focus of her professional career. She is now a Marine Habitat Resource Specialist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Restoration Center based at the NOAA Fisheries Narragansett Lab in Rhode Island, USA. She is focusing on coastal habitat restoration providing technical assistance to partners and under-resourced communities implementing restoration and coastal community resilience projects in the Northeast of America. Dr. Perry is also President-Elect of the New England Estuarine Research Society (NEERS), the Vice Chair of the Society of Ecological Restoration-Northeast Chapter (SER-NE), and Professionals of Color in the Environment (POCIE) Co-founder.

Title of Talk : Assessing Salt Marsh Recovery: Tracking Greenhouse Gas Fluxes, Soil Characteristics, and Plant Colonization at Restored Salt Marshes

Dr.-Ing Alhassan salami Tijani had his Ph.D (2010) in Process Engineering from Brandenburg Technical University (BTU), Cottbus Germany, his Master’s (2004) in Energy Systems from Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Juelich, Germany and diploma in Mine Mechanical Engineering from Ghana (1998). Currently Dr.-Ing Alhassan salami Tijani is an Associate Prof of Mechanical Engineering at the Universiti Teknologi MARA , Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. He is also an associate member of Solar research Institute, UiTM Shah Alam. He joined the university in 2011, and subsequently served the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (2013-2016) as the course coordinator for thermodynamics II. Dr.-Ing Alhassan salami Tijani has been lecturing on Thermodynamics, Thermal Engineering and Computational Fluid Mechanics, which happens to be his areas of research interest and has published more than 30 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings locally and internationally. He has served FKM Management Team at various levels such as conference organizing team member and coordinator for laboratory accreditation and participation in student’s activities. The main focus of Dr. Alhassan’s research is computational and modelling of energy systems, heat transfer enhancement for efficient nano cooling processes such as car radiator, Renewable hydrogen Technology, Polymer Electrolyzer Membrane Technology, heat and mass transport, solar energy applications and energy conversion. Due to his expertise and experience, he has been appointed as a judge in design competitions, external examiner, panel evaluator, visiting researcher and a member in various technical committees at national and international level.
Title of Talk : Recent Trends and Advance Modeling Approach of Renewable Hydrogen Technology

Joanna is driven by an interest in understanding biogeochemical processes in different environmental settings. She is an adjunct professor at the Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia (UFSB), and works at the Training Centre for Territorial Development. Regarding her academic background, she is a Post Doctor in Geosciences, has a PhD in Geosciences (UFF), Master in Ecology and Natural Resources (UENF) and has a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from UENF. Coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree Course in Environmental Management at UFSB and conducts different research projects in the area of biogeochemistry, monitoring and environmental contamination.
Title of the talk : Geochemical Behavior Of Rare Earth Elements (REE) in Urban Reservoirs

Prof. Yasna Tapia Fernández is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Research Associate of AMTC at the University of Chile. Food Engineer and PhD in Agricultural Chemistry with 16 years of career. Her line of research is in the study of chemistry of metals and Organic Matter. Currently developing research projects in Phyto stabilization of mine tailings, Phyto remediation of mining and waste waters and prganic matter chemistry and service agreements with mining companies. She is the author of 25 ISI publications and has directed more than 10 undergraduate and graduate theses.
Title of the talk : Sustainable Managementoftailings And Mine Water From Copper mining, Chile.

Prof. Ghennam Kamel received the M.Sc. degree and the Ph.D. degree in Ecology and Environment from the University of Science and Technology Bab ezzouar, Algiers Algeria. In 2017 he joined the The university Alger1 (Youcef ben khedda) where he currently leads a research group involved in Biomonitoring of air quality, using remote sensing and GIS. Research topics include impacts on health . He became an Associate Professor in november 2021.He is the author or coauthor of more than 2 papers in international refereed journals and more than 10 conference contributions.